Public Health, Disease, and Medicine

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advertisement with bi-plane dusting over a field and two farmers talking about it
Remembering Rachel Carson’s "Silent Spring"
Carrie (left) with her mother, Emma Buck, at the Virginia Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded, 1924.
The Sterilization of Carrie Buck
Advertisement for DDT featured in Time Magazine, June 30, 1947. This image illustrates the rosy reputation that pesticides enjoyed before the publication of Silent Spring.
A World Drenched with Pesticides: Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
a Black doctor talking with a Black woman and a female Black child
The Evolution of Medicine in the Black Community
members of the red cross during the 1918 flu pandemic
What Came Next?: Reflections on the Aftermath(s) of the 1918–19 Flu Pandemic in the Age of COVID
Motorcycles lined up on Main St. in Sturgis, South Dakota, 2014.
“Is the rally really worth it?” The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and the Costs of Neoliberalism
Two vials of modern insulin named Actrapid (left) and NovoRapid (right) by the manufacturers.
The First Insulin Injection as a Treatment for Diabetes
Prologued Season 2: The Global War on Drugs
The Global War on Drugs (Prologued, Season 2, Trailer)
students wearing masks sitting at desks in a classroom writing
Pandemic Pedagogies (Classroom Activities)
An HIV AIDS patient in Mozambique
What HIV Teaches Us: The Need for Affordable Health Care
Globe on a plate with knife and fork next to it
Diet for a Large Planet
Cover of Health, Healing and Illness in African History by Rebekah Lee.
Africa's Medical History Revealed
A COVID-19 antigen testing center in Warora, Maharashtra, India.
The Deep Roots of India’s COVID-19 Crisis
President Biden, standing in front of a blue flag with an eagle emblem
First 100 Days of the Biden Administration: Insights from History
Cover of Science under Fire Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America by Andrew Jewett.
Science Beseiged
This 1952 illustration by Robert Thom of Sims' gynecological experiments involving enslaved women is part of a larger collection entitled Great Moments in Medicine.
Black Women, Medical Racism, and COVID-19
Engraving of Roman plague doctor, Schnabel c.1656.
Quarantino: Plague and the Origins of Social Distancing
Port of Buenos Aires
Cholera and Argentina: Insights for COVID-19
Women from Guadalupe photographed at Ellis Island on their way to Montreal to take on domestic positions, April 6th , 1911.
Black Canadians and Pandemics
Group of people wearing masks
Going Viral: COVID Conspiracies in Historical Perspective
woman looking at hypodermic needle
The Blame Game: The USSR’s Response to HIV/AIDS
Employees operating a testing center at the Walmart Supercenter in Elizabethville, PA, August, 2020.
Licenses to Ill: Health Passes and Surveillance
The flag of the World Health Organization, founded in 1948, flies over the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.
Tuberculosis and the Optimism of Biomedicine
The port of İzmir, pictured here in 1883, was an Ottoman quarantine station.
Pandemics in Ottoman History: Plague, Cholera, and Influenza